Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-21

Nobody seems to believe that Jay Gould's riches make him as tired as he says they do.
 A Florida paper advertises Vermont ho- it plain that those who would escape grim death should live in Florida. Such is life.
 It is not pleasing to the taxpayers of New Haven to see floating teachers from out of town hoated into good places here by the astute young superintendent and his trusty chairman of the committee on schools.
 It is gravely asserted that there is man living in South Carolina whose name is Har- mon Dive-over Jump-under hitherto me Our-yonder Go-fetch it Jehu Joshua Will liam Hugh Hall Hiram Harvey Kiziah Sones.
 More than O,OOo, 900 pounds of artificial butter were manufactured and sold in this country in the months of November, Deoem- Der and January, but only IA, ,697 pounds were exported. It appears, then, that we are consuming artificial butter at the rate of about 40, ,0o0, 900 pounds year.
 The refusal of the Massachusetts railroad commissioners to allow the editor of the New York Engineering News to place important evidence before them showing the unsafe ness of the Bussey bridge as the cause of the terrible disaster at Forest Hills was a mis- take. They should welcome anything which might throw light on the "accident."
 The people of Philadelphia have new s'reform" charter from which they expect much. This charter makes the mayor the responsible executive of the city. The new mayor, MT. Filler, has made an excellent start. For director of the department of public works he has selected an experinced public servant, General Louis Wagner. For director of the very important department of public safety (which under the new charter includes the present police, fire and health departments, the supervision of the electric lights, the inspection of buildings, fire escapes, engines and steam boilers, markets, etc. he has made splendid selection in the person of William s. Stokley, the "centen- niaI mayor" If this is kept up the Phila- delphians will have reason to rejoice.
 The people clamored for the passage of the interstate commerce bill. It will not be surprising if they soon begin to clamor for changes in the law or it's abolition. A Chi cago railroad man says: tell you this inter State bill is going to hurt the shipper more than the railroads. I know it's a good deal of chestnut, but the more we see of it the more reason we have for reaching that con- clusion. In the past railroads have helped shippers in hundred ways, which now, un- der the new enactment, will be deemed un- lawful. You will find that before the year is out the very men whom the bill was designed to benefit will clamor for it's repeal, aud if Congress does not reverse it's action the meas ure will at least become dead letter. When you deprive the railroads of the power of discriminating little under the stress of peculiar circumstances you stop large quan- tity of business which would be transported if conditions were more favorable. Shippers who thought the bill a good one when it was first introduced now are beginning to realize that it is a little too radical.
 Experiments in cooperation do not suc
 ceed unless they are well managed. Thii truth is illustrated by the failure of the oo | operative printing establishment at Boston
 The concern was started by thirty men, near | ly all practical printers, who subscribed l 5000. It was stipulated that the establish